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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
Inventions of the 9th Century.

Inventions of the 9th Century.
The steamboat, the reaper, the sewing ma
chine,
Cars running by night and by day,
Houses light, by gas and heated by steam,
And bright electricity's ray.
The telegraph's click speeds like lightning re-
leased,
Then the telephone comes to excel it;
And, 10 put on the finish, the last but not
least,
Is the famed little Purgative Pellet.
Last hut not least is Or. Pierce's Pleasant
Purgative Pellet, because it relieves human
suffering. ADDS to the sum of human comfort,
and enables the relieved sufferer to enjoy all
the blessings and luxuries of the age we
live in
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
Marriage Licenses.
j. w. Armstrong TO Juans Morales.
Arthur g. Paris TO Mary Wilkey.
w. l.. Camp to A l.. Long.
We Still Continue

TO supply the public with pure drugs,
hne toilet articles, perfumery, etc, at
reasonable prices, and to give especial
attention to physicians prescriptions.
Our patrons may rely upon the quality
OF our drugs and be sure Of receiving
prompt and courteous attention.
RAGLAND 81 KENNEDY,
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Widowed.

News has reached the city thas Mr..
Thos. l.. Elder. farmer of Marion
county, Kentucky, who Married Mics
Kate Devine. died near st. Mary's on
the Sth ult. The deceased was an esti-
mable man, and the popular young
widow is receiving coincidence upon her
sad bereavement.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
An Offensive Breath

Is most distressing, not only to the person af
fiicted if he have any pride, but TO those with
whom he comes in contact. It's a delicate
matter to speak Of but it has parted not only
friends but lovers Bad breath and catarrh are
inseparable. DR.. Sage's CataTrh Remedy cures
the worst cases as thousands can testify.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
PaWnbroker's Sale.

VIII sell, commencing Wednesday,
November 9th, at 10 a. m. at the Green
Front Auction House, for account Mrs.
II. Frank, the entire contents pawn
brokers' stock, consisting of gold and
silver watches, rings, bracelets, clothing,
blankets, clocks, sewing maohiRe, ETC.,
etc."
IL Stf GEO. PEARSON, Auctioneer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
Retiring From Business.

Must be sold by January LIST, my en-
tire stock Of fine whiskys, wines,
liquors, etc. Also fixtures, furniture,
horse, buggy and wagon. Two sets Of
fine bar fixtures. At great sacrifice.
ll-2-tf HARRY BAUM q Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10

Is natures own true laxative. 1t is the most
easily taken and the most effective remedy
known to cleanse the system when bilious or
costive; to dsrC heada hes. colds, and fevers !;
to cure habitual constipation, indigestion,
piles, etc. Manufactured only by the Califor-
mia Fig syrup COMPANY. San FramcisCO. Cal.
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Winter Underwear.

GENTNEMEN: We invite you to call
and inspect our stock OF underwear.
We have the best stock, largest variety
In the state, at reasonable prices.
ll7Gt YOUNG & ARNOLD,
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FOR SALE,

Special bargains for one month: nearly new
frame house of rooms, wood and wash house,
halls and galleries. large lot, plenty of shade,
city water, good location, on Avenue b. and
cheap. HAMBLETON, HApLEY & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10
A Blue Norther Predicted.

In order to prepare yourselves send
your orders to the Alamo COrnice Works
and have your stoves put up; No. 81
West Commerce street; telephone 79.
10 22-lm
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Attention, Ladies',

For fine millinery, ladies' fancy goods,
all kinds Of imported yarn and EN-.
Kirohner, 225 w. Commerce street. I'm
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AComplete Bar Outfit.

Bolton has for sale a complete bar
outfit with or without stock or lease.
At bargain for a live man with cash
IN 90 ~
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And purchase your holiday liquors at
once and save 90 per cent, as we are 60
ing out OF business. ll-2-tf
HARRY BAUM & Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-10

The entire stock Of groceries. liquors,
tobacco &C., will be closed out at and
below cost. CHAs. WOLF,
(l029tf Successor to 4. Abrahams.
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GEO. PEARSON, Auctioneer.
Assignee Sale.

Watches, diamonds, jewelry etc., will
be sold at q bargain. SAM G. BELL,
9-7-lm Assignee.
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Monuments and Tombstones

Manufactured at lowest living prices,
in best styles, at Frank Teich's marble
works, 5l3 Houston street. l0-3-.y
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THEY ARE THE BEST.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

l rec lived Rogers Poems oy this morn
ing's pail as premium awarded on ticket
No. 1872. Many thanks. Yours truly,
G. W. CARTER.
Henrietta, Tex, April 81, 18S7.-Dear
Sirs L hereby acknowledge the receipt
Of Mrs. Heman's Poems, awarded to me
on ticket No 1904, which l highly appre-
ciate. Accept my thanks.
JIM. MADDOX.
Elkhart, Tex, April Is, 18S7.-Demo-
Graz Publishing Co.-Gents: Accep. my
thanks for "The LAST of the Mohicans,"
received to-day. Yours truly.
J. NJ. PARKS.
Lipan, Tex April 20, lS87.-Democrat
Publishing Co.-Gents: Please accepl
my thanks tor promptly forwarding th
premium awarded to me in your April
O'S''l0u''0H; ''Dt' ' G. w.. WILLIAMS.
Abilene, Tex, April 20. 1887-Fort
Worth GAZETTE Dear Sirs: "Songs
Sacred and Devotional" awarded to me-
in your April distribution has been re-.
celved. Thank you. II. R. WILSON.
Dougherty, Tex, April 81, 1887-Dem-
ocrat Publishing Company-Gentlemen:
"Ossian" has been received, and write
to tender my thanks. May THE GAzETTE's
popularity grow with the growth of the
paper as it so justly merits.
MRS. E. P. FREDERICK.
Tehuacana, Tex, April %, 1857
GAZETTE: l have received as premium
a handsomely bound copy of Tupper's
Poems, for which please accept my
thanks. Yours truly, W. P. BowKIN.
Draca, Tex, April 10, 1887-GAzETTE
Dear Sir: "Romola" has been re-
ceived. Thank you.
B. W. MANN.
Strawn, Tex, April %, 18S7.-Dear
GAZETTE: Accept thanks for Coieridge's
poems, awarded to me in your second
distribution.
PROFESSOR 81. B. ATWOOD.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Live Stock Market.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 30.-Cattle RE
ceipts 500; shipments none; shipping steers
steady, but chof steers ard cows strong;
good choice shipping 81 5J64 20; common u
medium So sOa4 As; stoekers 81 6OG3 So; feed
ing steers s. 3GG3 go; cows g 25G3 80 Fl gs-
Receipt. 1920; shipments 1900; market weak,
closing a shade lower, ranging from 81 75G5 40
Sheep-Receipts 549i shipments none; market
firm; GOOD to choice So 5064 90; common to
medium 81 SOFAS 40.
ST.: LOUIS, Mo-, April 3O.-Cattle-Receipts
800; Shipments 100; market strong; choice
heavy native steers, 81 Sn65 Is; fair to good
shipping steers, 81 1904 70; butchers steers,
fair to choice. s. 6004 40; feeders, fair to
good, $ 3064 20; stockers, fair 10 good, g 20
%; Texans, common grass to choice corn
fed, 81 1904 80. Hogs Receipts 900; market
stronger, prices ranging from 81 SOFAS 65. s. eep
Receipts 325; shipments coo; market drm
wooded, fair TO fancy. s. 5004 10; clipped, me-
dunn to choice, So I063 Is.
CHICAGO, ILL, April O.-Cattle-Receipts
1000; shipments none; market WEAKER for
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
GENERAL Markets.
Produce and ProvisEona.

ST. LOUIS, MO-, April 3O.-FIour-Firm but
unchanged, Wheat firm; early market al
months, but declined at other pOin..s causing
gain to be lost and closed at yesterdays figures
No. red cash entirely nominal with bu ere
at May price; May 8l35@82]&c; closing at sl2lcs
1850, closing at 7914c; August 79}s@79zsc, clos-
ing at 793ac. Corn dull and 1saAc
l cosi6S cash at $5 4e Ju May s5c
Closing at 500 bid; July S37z5c' cio gi1G
at $3.50 bid. Oats easy and slow; cash 27Sa
28ac; May 277sc; June 28c. Corn meal firm at
81 05. WHISKY steady at 81 IL. Pro- isioDs very
dull, with only small job trade done Pork
small lots irregular new sic so; old mess SIS 90.
La d Sc 7566 So Dry salt meats, boxed, should
eTs, s. 75a5 871a; long clears 81 7067 75i- short
ribs 81 75GS on; short clears S. 006815 Ba
con-Shoulu ers S. 2566 so; long cleafs S. $50
S 40; short ribs S. 35a8 45 short Gle 4Ts IS 80
as ga. Hams Sl1 5OGl4 90.
CHICAGO, ILL, April 30. Trading In wheat
was OF larger scaleSO- day, operators ident-
ly feeling inclined % wait developments on
Monday, delivery day. The market opened
firm, prl es advancing &c over closing figures
Yesterday. but during the last hour the tone be-
came heavy and the advance was entirely lost,
the market closing &c 'wer for Lay delivery
than yesterday The clearinSs frem seaboard
aggregat, 10000 bushels, and it was estimated
that the Visible supply would disclose de-
crease of about 100000. Corn was again quiet
and easier; receipts were tightly larger, and
under fair speculative offerings prices reced
ed and closed &c under yesterday Pork was
marked up an additional 50CGSl 90 per barrel,
and closed steady: Lard declined l0G12kc
and closed quiet; short lbs DE- CT ned 2215c and
closed at medium figures. Leading futures
closed rs follows: Wheat No ?, April, s03Ic;
May, SO2sc; June, S31sc; July, 50 ga 34c Corn
No. 2, April, $3.50; May, 373sQ3Zsc; July,
4O25c Mess pork-May, $22 903June, so IS.
Lard-May, Sc 9215; June, 81 o.; Juy Y, 81 Is.
Snort ribs-May, 81 627a; June, 81 ~ July,
81 S715. Cash quotalions-FlOur quiet and I'm
changed No. pring wheat 500 Gs05c; No.
2 red, SOz5c. Corn-NO. 2, 37G3725n. Mess
loose, 81 6OG7 10; dry sailed shoulders, boxod
3 9Oa6 co; SHORT Clear sides. boxed, s. % as %.
NEW YORK, April 30 Coffee - Fair; Rio
quiet at SIG so; options lower an Moderately
active; sales 1000 bags; May SI4 7OGI4 IS;
June Sl4 80; July SIS O50i5 Is; August
SI5 I5dI5 %; September So 25G > 40; October
SIS 3OGl5 q; November SIS = ais 40; Decem-
Der SID 45Gl5 30; February SIS so, Sugar
dull refined easier. MoIasses quiet
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

circumstances permit of a habit being
formed, or that, if the habit be formed,
others factors than the pure instinct
should modify its course, need not sur
prise US. Life is fuN of the Imperfect
adjustment to individual cases, of ar
engagements which, taking the species as
whole, are quite orderly and regular.
Instinct cannot be expected to escape this
general rnle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
MISS WOLFE's LOVE STORY.
How $1,000 Happened to Come Between
Her and a Husband.
New YORK Letter In CHICAGO Tribune.

Her ana a duSDdnus
New York Letter in Chicago Tribune.
A genuinely solemn thing is the death
of Miss Catherine Wolfe, the richest
maiden lady IN tn land. She was gen.
uine devotee of religion and charity.
Her obituaries have ere this been printed
everywhere. Stories of the reason of
her celibacy, and impsrting a romantic
tinge to it, are current in society.
An intimate friend assures me that
they are not true. With millions upon
millions ct her command from girlhoCd,
with the utmost refinement and goodness
inherent in her nature, with family con-
nections of the proudest sort, her oppo-
tunities for wiylng herself advantageous
" were of the best. But she never had
the remOtest desire to marry. This feel
ing may have been partly due 70 dis
trust of sill wooers, for how cOull she
know that thew wanted her rather than
her money? But principally it arose from
a genuine repugnance TO WedloCk.
She desired to maintain utter indepen-
deuce. Twenty-Five yeacs ago q Count
FalC0 came nearer to winning her than
ANYBODY before or since. He was an
Italian, and his title wSs all right, though
Counts are Of no great distinction in
Italy He had been educated tor the
Catholic priesthood, but he had become
an EpiscoDaliGn IN this country. He
protested to devote himself 70 benev olent
work, and gained Miss Wolfe's confidence
in that way, and it was thonght that she
almost, if not quite, accepted him as
lover. But he couldn't wait for her
money. She intrusted $1,000 to him for a
particular charity. He confscated the
fund foK his own use, and she detected the
robbery.
81 will never trust 8 man again." she
said, "uniess he refrains from counting
me-"
This seemed to become .tAe fixed rule of
her life, and its operation Recessltated
mai6pnhOOd
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
New Orleans,

NEW ORLEANS. La, April SO-Cotton-spot
closed firm, Lice higher
Sales, l0O0.s
Low ordinary. SIC; ordinary, So; good ordi-
nary, &c; low middling, 10 1-l6c; mid
ding. lO3sc; good middlIng 1880; mid
ding fair, lie; fair. II II Ice
Futures opened steady, ruled and closed
steady. SGl0 nnints HIGHER
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures
From Six to Eleven Points Higher.
Money Market Easy.
Wheat Opened Firm, Fluctuated Narrowly
and Closed the Same rs Friday-LiVe
Stock Transactions Brisk.

FORT WORTH ENTHUSIASTICALLY BE
VIEW.
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE,
FORT WORTH. TEX. April 80, 1887.
The retailers did a larger Saturday
business to-day than usual, while the
wholesale trade was up to the mark of
the last few days.
Meats are somewhat weak st the de-
cline.
Coffee has an upward tendency.
Country butter while in good supply
brings good prices.
DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING.
The movement at New York during the
week may be characterized as light. Both
cotton and wooden goods shared in
the less active demand. A fair re-
order demand was reported by agents from
western points. The local jobbing trade
showed no new features. Prices of cot
tons were as a rule firmly held, but a
slight shading on bleached sheetings OF
low grades was reported. Wooden goods
were quiet, as indicated ebove. No
change is to be noted in the market for
mems wear goods Foreign goods were
in sympathy with domestic products.
The contracts for dry goods will be
dWdIuSu III lulS CIIy carly Ill May,
SUGARS.
Though without remarkable activity,
raw sugars in the foreign and domestic
markets have held their own very we'll as
to prices, hardening here slightly in the
instance of Centrifugals, and at London
and in the local connection weakening
trife on beet-root product. Here re-
hners have been buying moderately,
and reporting steady and rather in
creasirg call for the refined product for
home use and shipment. From the pri-
mary markets the accounts have been of
continued and decided confidence as to
the general position and outlook, though,
temporarily at least, it has been owned
the demand has been checked by the firm
and unyielding views of holders. The
actual changes in prices have been insig-
nifcsnt. : Brsdstreet's.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
The Wool Market.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April SO.-Wool-In Sood
local demand for al medium and good grades,
but lower qualities on slow prices but not
quotably changed; good medium, 20G241zc;
coarse braid, l6G20c; low sandy, ISGlSc; line
light, lSG2lc; fine heavy, l4G2Oc.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

a paper says that it is-better for the
general health Ola goodneighbOrhood to
have one good natured man than four
doctors. Good Mature is the result Of an
active liver and asTegulated stomach.
Morris CascarineS is the medicine to per
petuate these conditions.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

beeves aud l0c off; shipping steers, 95O615OO
pounds, 81 OOG5 10; stockers and feeders,
s. 9OG4 40; cows, bull and mixed, 81 OOG4 90 /;
Texas cattle, s. 25G4 90. HOg-Receipts 5000 !;
market strong ami 5GlOc higher, ranging IRON
II 2oG5 60. Sheep-ReGelpts 1000; shipments
none; market stronger; common to fancy
wooded 81 OOG5 %; shOrn. So OUG4 s.; Texans
s. SOFAS 80; lambs, 81 5OG6 90.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
The Coffee Market.

GALVESTON, TEX. April 3O.-Coffee-Firm
and unchanged; wholesale Erocers quote good
ordinary, 11Gl74c; fair, Tx 6173lc; prime, lSc;
choice, 1890 peaberry, l9c. Importers fill round
lot orders for Rio coffee at the following prices:
GOOD ordinary, lie; fair, 174c; prime, Ike;
choice, l6c; peaberry, 1910.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
MONEY.

NEW YORK, April 3O.-Money on call easy,
ranging from to per cent, closing offered at
per cent. Prime mercantile paper at 505]5
per cent. Sterling exchange dull and steady
atSi 86% for sixty day bills and 81 S74 for de-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
GaiReAtOn.

GALVESTON, TEX, April 3O.-Cotton - Spot
firm sc higher
Low ordinary, 7 I5 l6c; ordinary, Also; good
ordinary, SIC; low middling,9 l5-l6c; mid
ding 1914; good middling, lO15c; middling
fair, 10 10 Ice.
Gross receipts 224.
Sales, 2O4.
Exports, none.
Stock, L, 553 bales.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
n oW YorK.

NEW YORK, April 80. Cotton-spot closed
firm ll6c higher.
Sales, ,435 bales.
Ordinary, 3l6c; good ordinary, I6c; low
middling, 1890; midding, lOAc; good
mid ling, lie; mtddling fair lIssc.
futures opened steady and closed firm ,eto II
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL. April 3O-Cotton Spot closed
hardening, l-16d higher,
Ordinary, sd; good ordinary, sled; low
middling, l6d; middling upIands, IL l6d !;
middling Orleans, sgd.
Total sales, 10000; American, $500; Imports,
5000; American, POO
Futures opened steady, l point higher. and
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

NEW YORK, April 3O.-VisibIe suppliesof cot
ton in the world according to the ChroRicle of
this date:
Total supply to day............. -. .5Is0 9s
Same day last year. 2 472754
Difference, increase. ............ 45445
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

The correct wav, is tesbuy goods from
theS fnanufaetuEef when possible. Tie
Eskhart GsafIage epa HsFnessCo. of PIX
hart, Inc. have rs agents. They srake
frst.cless goodssship eyerywheEe, pfiEiss
lege to azamine. q See advertisement.
The Fines Razezs So ss5tid
At AndeEseE Store.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
ENGLISH OONsOLs.

LONDON. April 3O.-Oonsols closed 1929 for
money; silver 44Ad.
STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, April So Bonds and stocks
cnsPd ut following nrICes bid:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

FORT WORTH mARHETs-DAILY BE
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

Sales 7l,U0O.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
SUMNER sQUlBs.

Boston Transcript: The gardeners In
India are all Buddhists
New Age: Hanging Is too good for .
painting that Is badly executed.
Boston Herald: The Indian scare looms
I'D without any reservation worth speaking
Of
Springfield Mirror: }. Gould is proprietor
of the largest watering place in the world
his Office.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Tan Is the fash.
ionable color now. Mrs. Cleveland has
fine coat of 1t.
Boston Transcript The school vacation
Is almost over and the schoolmaster will soou
rattan to business.
Plttsburg Chronicle: "The spell Is
broken" remarked the foreman, as Slug Ten
dropped a handful of typo on the floor.
Sioux City journal: OF course people In
Iowa can drink. They can get drunk. But
they are not permitted to put on any style
about 1t.
Lowell Ctizen The man who left home
to spend the summer with his family has just
returned. The summer is not yet spent, but
his money IS.
Utica Observer: The birth Of a son to
George and Edith Kingdom Gould is proba-
ably put down in the diary of its paternal
grandfather as a new issue of preferred stock.
Washington Critic: A Harvard savant
was recently mistaken for lunatic In Con.
necticut. This is q delightful relief to the
monotony of having lunatics mistaken for
savants.;
San Francisco Alta: In the effort to Chris
tianize Africa the United States leads Great
Britain. We send to the African annually
LAP ga lions OF rum, while England sends
only fCl SoS gallons
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
Contcnts.Or the Sunday Bee,

Page /. New York Herald Gables to the
BEE and other relePraphic News.
Pace2. Telegraphic News.-City News
Advertisements.
Pages. Special Advertisements.
Page 4. EditOrial.-Political Points,
Editorial Comments-Current Topics
Page 3. Lincoln Letter-Kearney's Big
Boom Miscellany.
Advertisements.
PAGE l. Society News-General and
Page 8. General City News-Advertise.
ments.
Page .. Baby Gould's Wardrobe, by
Clara BelIe--Some Little Bits of Fun-Book
Reviews-Echoes From the Ante -ROOm-The
Road Agent-Advertiseme
Page 10: Pacific Coast Fortunes, by
0oorge II. Fitch-Results of Electricity
Home Made Mummies-The Sea OF Gallilee
The Style in Visiting Csrds-Advertise-
ments.
Page IL; Struggle ofa Worthy Race by
Dr. A. 3. lmpieties-Incidents OF
Matrimony - Peppermint Drops = Educa
tional-Musical and Dramatic.
Page IL. In the Feminine Domain-Honey
Tor the s-Singularities- Quaint Strst-
ford-on-Avon, by Franz specialization
Advertisements,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
Professor Baird .

In the death of Spen Ger +. Baird, sec
rotary of the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington, the world of science has
lost one OF its chief lights. An indefati.
gabio worker all his days. he had worked
himself to the front ranks among the
naturalists OF the age, and he had no
equal in his knowledge of ichthyology.
He wrote an immense number of works
on varied scientific subjects, and
beng man Of unusual executive ability,
he mado the Smithsonian Institute a
model Of its kind.
Professor Baird was born In Beading
in 1922, and was graduate Of Dickinson
col lege. IN which institution he became q
professor In lS45. la 1850 he was ap-
pointed assistant secretary of the Smith.
sonian Institute, With which lie has since
been connected. Hs was chosen secre
.ary in 1878 and in 1871 was made fish
Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
The Marking System In Schools.

The marking system IN our colleges
and high schools should be abolished.
1t is a puerile, incompetent and unjust
devise. The fact IS, our institutions for
imparting knowledge employ more
because they arc of ancient origin and
We have always been accustomed to see
them. 1t is but recently that we have
begun to have correct idea of the object
of instruction of the young.
The marking system in colleges is
especially absurd. 1t is treating young
men or women on the kindergarten plan.
There is no justice in it. An idler MAJ
by hurried "crsmming" or by dishonest
expedlents gain as good standing as
the Industrious student, and may even
surpass him in gaining college honors, il
his status is determined by the number OF
marks that may stand opposite his name.
1t is notorious that most of the men who
have distinguished themselves in latter
life had no conspicuous rank in school or
college. Marks may be obtained by a
species Of mental jugglery or by actual
sleight of hand. and the superiically
bWott stuucnt 10 usuaiy iuoio oueP'
in obtaining them than the real student
The object of school or college should
be to train, guide and develope the mind
| Of the young, not to cram as large q
number OF facts into 1t as possible, re-
gardless Of Its power to assimilate them
and then register the process by marks
But 1t is the latter instead of the former
method which is practiced, and so this
country Is full Of children and youth who
are mental dyspepucs and physics
weaklinss. To plant an idea in the
youthful mind; to help it grow in the
same ratio that the body grows; to train
the mind into correct habits Of action; t.
check. injurious tendencies; to heiI
strengthen the mind in It's weakest parts